...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed...
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father

As understatements go, awkward, indeed. But at least that wretched insult publicly overpowered, for the moment, the wretched insult of delaying, once again, the release of her 2007 returns. And as we know, the Clintons live for nothing more than the moment. Lord, just get us through one more day. We'll deal with today's backlash in defense of yesterday tomorrow.But, oops, what did tomorrow bring, which today would be yesterday? You got it. Another scandal.

Hillary, it seems, has been fibbing again. According to the New York Times,

For five weeks Hillary has featured in her campaign stump speeches thestory of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could notcome up with a $100 fee. The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, twoweeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens,Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under thecare of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was neverrefused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured. "We implore the Clintoncampaign to immediately desist from repeating this story," said Rick Castrop,chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System. Linda M. Weiss, aspokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had nevercontacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story.

That abomination speaks for itself. As does this one, which is to say, yet another one from merely the past couple days:

Mark Penn, chief campaign strategist to the New York senator, has apologizedfor meeting with Colombia's U.S. ambassador in his separate role as a lobbyisthired by the South American country to win congressional approval of [a] tradedeal with the United States [that his candidate opposes].

But I'm sure Hillary knew nothing about it. She's a perpetual victim; either subjected, like Captain Queeg, to the machinations of disloyal subordinates, or, like Richard Nixon, to the machinations of a hostile press.

I wonder if secretly Hillary still checks the fridge for errant strawberries when her hired help leaves.

Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.

The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.

“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.

Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy in late February.

I think the really terrible thing about this story is that she forgot to mention the snipers in Athen's, a dangerous place for her because of the Greek separatists that threatened Chelsea if then President Clinton didn't give free pot to everybody in Meigs County. The Clinton campaign did not return calls from Heaven and Hell where Hillary is personally negotiating pardons for friends and family.

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